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This study focuses on gender-specific determinants of remittances in Germany. The conceptual approach considers gender … of naturalized German citizens, gender differences in the amount of remittances disappear. This can be explained by the …
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The earnings of mothers make up an important, but difficult to quantify, component of parental expenditures on children. This paper compares the long-term earnings of women with children, women without children, and men. The study conducts separate analyses for less educated, moderately...
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provide employees with fringe benefits such as annual leave, social benefits, and health insurance. This gender effect exists …. The study also explores whether this finding is linked to gender differences in social networks and workforce structure … differences in fringe benefits along the “gender of owner” dimension. There remains a sizable and unexplained fringe benefits …
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household wealth in the United States varies by gender and family type. Evidence is found of large differences in observed … observable characteristics correlated with gender and wealth - such as position in the life cycle, education, and family earnings …
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. Consistent with earlier studies, the analysis examines hypotheses relating to resources, objective demand, and gender attitudes …
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-century United States were shaped and channeled by gender stereotypes. These stereotypes influenced the public attitudes held by both …
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Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this paper explores the gender dimensions of population control and land tenure … policies in a rural village in Northeast China. Gender bias was explicit in the implementation of both policies in the village … between 1980 and the mid-1990s. Since that time, explicit gender bias has been reduced and both policies have stressed market …
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This article is concerned with the impact of gender, class, and ethnic divisions on inequities in wealth accumulation … Resources Survey, of the distribution of individual-level pension wealth to gauge the size of the gender wealth gap. It then … gender differences in wealth through methods such as these is vital because it enables us to explore the long-term buildup of …
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Microenterprise success is often evaluated solely in terms of economic outcomes. These evaluations do not recognize how opportunities for success may differ across groups and contexts, and disregard the importance of power and control as factors in success. This article investigates the...
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This paper uses dictator experiments to examine gender differences in altruistic behavior in the United States when … only in mixed-sex groups, indicating a gender-based component to the value of the social signal sent. Although men and …
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